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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister. Without a doubt there is positivity on the islands. What is lacking is positivity on the part of the Government-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: -----notwithstanding the Minister's commitment. What I hear is the Minister telling me she will have the draft plan. The draft plan was there in October. It remains a draft almost three months later. I presume the Minister has not seen it yet and it has not landed on her desk. She is giving a commitment that it will be published. I would like this clarified. When will the action plan...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I have a question later on this and I am coming in now in case it is not reached. I am not sure why the question was not grouped but that is the privilege of the Department. I hear the Minister telling me that she listened to the islanders. When I visited a packed AV room meeting, they told me that for 38 years the islands have been fighting to be recognised as a subregional area and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Offshore Islands (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 15. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 27 October 2022, the engagement that she or her Department has had with representatives of island communities in relation to the creation of an island-specific regional grouping for the purposes of the LEADER programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62558/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Offshore Islands (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I am glad I have the opportunity to ask this question. I did not think I would, given the time restrictions. I will go back to the funding for the islands and recognising the islands as one subregional area. The Minister said she has had interaction with the islands and has brought changes but the islands have asked for that recognition. When the Minister brought in those changes, which I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Offshore Islands (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister emphasised the changes made. What interaction did she have on those changes with the representatives of the islands? Is she telling me they are happy with those changes and have abandoned their campaign to be recognised as a subregional area? This is very important. During the presentation in the AV room, the representatives pointed out that they had been looking for this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Offshore Islands (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I know the Minister's heart is in the right place and I have recognised her commitment on record. My difficulty is that during the presentation in the AV room, the islanders told us it was absolutely essential to have the recognition as a subregional area and that alignment with the counties does not suit the sustainability of the islands. It is as simple as that. The interaction the...

Death of Private Seán Rooney: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Before starting the next business, I ask Members to join with me in expressing our deepest condolences to the family of the soldier killed in the ambush in Lebanon, Private Seán Rooney, from Newtowncunningham in County Donegal and to the families of the two soldiers injured. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

Death of Private Seán Rooney: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Mar a dúirt an Tánaiste, tá an tír uilig faoi scamall an bhróin. Seasfaimid le chéile i ndíol cuimhne Seán Rooney.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I call on the Tánaiste to respond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat a Theachta.We are way over time.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy has raised this matter before, and while I will let the Tánaiste respond in a moment, I wish to say that I have repeatedly pointed out to the Deputy the separation of powers. He is raising serious allegations across the border. I am not taking issue that he may be raising a serious issue, but the manner in which he is raising it means I will have to draw his attention once...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I will take the last two speakers together.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Is the Bill opposed?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Since this is a Private Members' Bill, Second Stage must, under Standing Orders, be taken in Private Members' time.

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Seanad Éireann has passed the Appropriation Bill 2022, without amendment. Seanad Éireann has also passed the Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022, without amendment.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Staid Reatha na hEarnála Léiriúcháin Gaeilge: Plé (7 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe go léir. Is cúis spreagadh i ndáiríre an dul chun cinn atá déanta ó thaobh na scannán de ach go háirithe. Gabhaim leithscéal go mbeidh mé ag rith amach roimh dheireadh an chruinnithe. Tá roinnt ceisteanna agam. Ní fhaca mé “Arracht”, “Foscadh”,...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Staid Reatha na hEarnála Léiriúcháin Gaeilge: Plé (7 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Tuigim sin, ach tá sibh anseo mar ionadaithe na hearnála anseo inniu.